Since it is impossible to know what’s really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
ATTRIBUTION:
Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), Peruvian novelist. The narrator, in The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, ch. 9 (1984, trans. 1986).
